Great Fire of London comes alive....
What a great way to learn about the Great Fire of London!
Year 2 loved their GFOL workshop today as they explored life in 1666, helped to build London and then joined in the retelling of the story. They then learnt about the different ways that people tried to put the fire out and attempted the…
Online Safety
Year 2 discussed their online lives and talked about all the different things that they did online. We watched a video to help learn more about keeping safe online and talked about what we would do if we had any worries online.
The Great Fire of London
Year 2 were so engrossed in their first lesson about the Great Fire of London. After we had a pretend fire drill, we found something in class. It was some burnt bread, cheese and wine! We started to learn about how the fire started and what happened.
Year 2 are hard at work in handwriting
Year 2 are working so hard on improving their handwriting. They are learning to take care to form letters correctly, get them the correct size and begin to join letters in their writing. The challenge is to remember to always write as nicely as they do in handwriting!
London! London!
Year 2 have enjoyed starting to learn about London. We had to find clues to work out which place we were learning about. We then learnt about where London is and facts about London. We played a True False game and even found London on Google Earth and spotted some landmarks.
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More Art work in Year 2 - Printing and learning about the artist Lucy Jones
It has been a busy week in Year 2 with 2 more art lessons linked to our work in buildings. We learnt how to make a print of our drawings by making a foam print. We loved seeing our drawings as a print.
We then looked at the work of Lucy Jones who is an artist and printmaker. We enjoyed…
We love Reading
We are really enjoying our different reading activities in Year 2 during Guided Reading. Groups enjoy reading and even had a go at following instructions from their Guided Reading books. We also enjoy reading comprehension and working out which words are real and nonsense.
Experimenting with tone and drawing buildings
Year 2 started their new art topic today by experimenting with how to draw narrow and broad lines and use tone, using drawing pencils and charcoal. They then looked at buildings in Skemersdale and London and had a go at drawing them.
Making maps in Geography
Year 2 children spend the afternoon revisiting their walk from yesterday. We talked about the different human and physical features that we spotted on the way. We looked at our route again on a map and then had a go at making our own maps of the route. Finally we found Delph Side on Google Earth…
Walk around our local area
Year 2 went on a walk around our local area as part of our Geography work. We worked on their mapping skills to follow a map of the route and had to spot different human and physical features. We learnt that the river in Skelmersdale is the River Tawd. We also had a go at drawing some of the…
The Home Guard
Year 2 have really #embraced our learning this week about the war effort at home on the Home Font. They have examined different sources to help them learn about the role that the Home Guard play. Watch the video of the Delph Side Home Guard 2020.
Year 2 visit the Victory Garden
Year 2 visited our Victory Garden today to place their poppy stones round our Cenotaph and remember the people who had fought in the wars. They also left some of their messages - "Lest we Forget" "We will remember them"